Students in CU-Boulder's Film Studies programs traveled to Nevada to help create the movie "Bill, the Galactic Hero." The following is a set of images from the film being made. Photos courtesy of Pablo Kjolseth.

The spacecraft for a NASA mission to probe the climate history of Mars led by CU-Boulder slid seamlessly into orbit at about 8:24 p.m. MDT on Sunday, Sept. 21, the last major hurdle of the 10-month, 442-million-mile journey.

University of Colorado Boulder aerospace engineering students are working with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to create robotic rovers that can investigate some of the earth's hostile natural environments. See the rovers in action, and find out how CU-Boulder students are getting invaluable hands-on experience.